I'm a freelance travel, food and wine, adventure, and cross-cultural writer. I am also a cultural anthropologist who surfs, paints, does yoga, loves to hike into little known places, and absolutely loves to cook and break bread with interesting, positive-minded people with different outlooks on life. I also like to find and try that little-known wine that is made by a person passionate about life and the earth. I'm active with the Surfrider Foundation, working with them to clean up our oceans, educate the public about the beauty of green lifestyles, and to replace plastic bag use with terrific reusable alternatives for shopping. I live near the ocean and my hope is that each time I go for a surf, walk, or run, I'll see fewer and fewer plastic bags washing ashore (which I am constantly picking up). I just spent four months backpacking across Spain for my forthcoming book, The Spiritual Traveler Spain--The Guide to Sacred Sites and Pilgrim Routes (HiddenSpring Books/Paulist Press, spring 2009). To learn more about my writing, please visit my website: www.beebesfeast.com.